The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

by Parrinder, Patrick; Partington, John S.

• ISBN13: 9780826462534
• ISBN10: 0826462537
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-12
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union.
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Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	ix
Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of Contributors	xv
Abbreviations	xix
Timeline: European Reception of H. G. Wells	xxiii
Patrick Parrinder
Paul Barnaby
Introduction	1	(13)
Patrick Parrinder
French
H. G. Wells's Critical Reception in France	14	(14)
Joseph Altairac
Barbara Ghiringhelli
Henry-D. Davray and the Mercure de France	28	(20)
Annie Escuret
Russian
Russia Revisited	48	(15)
Maria Kozyreva
Vera Shamina
H. G. Wells in Russian Literary Criticism, 1890s-1940s	63	(11)
Adelaida Lyubimova
Boris Proskurnin
Future Perfect: H. G. Wells and Bolshevik Russia, 1917-32	74	(17)
Roger Cockrell
German
White Elephants and Black Machines: H. G. Wells and German Culture, 1920-45	91	(14)
Elmar Schenkel
Ignorance, Opportunism, Propaganda and Dissent: The Reception of H. G. Wells in Nazi Germany	105	(21)
Richard Nate
Polish
H. G. Wells's Polish Reception	126	(26)
Andrzej Juszczyk
On Translations of H. G. Wells's Works into Polish	152	(13)
Juliusz K. Palczewski
Czech
A Welcome Guest: the Czech Reception of H.G. Wells	165	(10)
Bohuslav Manek
Hungarian
Critics and Defenders of H.G. Wells in Interwar Hungary	175	(20)
Gabriella Voo
The Puzzling Connection between H. G. Wells and Frigyes Karinthy	195	(10)
Katalin Csala
Italian
H. G. Wells, Italian Futurism and Marinetti's Gli Indomabili (The Untamables)	205	(17)
Maria Teresa Chialant
Catalan
An Approximation of H.G. Wells's Impact on Catalonia	222	(14)
Teresa Iribarren i Donadeu
Spanish
H. G. Wells and the Discourse of Censorship in Franco's Spain	236	(17)
Alberto Lazaro
Portuguese
News from Nowhere: Portuguese Dialogues with H. G. Wells	253	(14)
Jose Manuel Mota
Irish
Clashing Utopias: H. G. Wells and Catholic Ireland	267	(13)
Lucian M. Ashworth
French and Russian Science Fiction
A Tale of Two Science Fictions: H. G. Wells in France and the Soviet Union	280	(22)
George Slusser
Daniele Chatelain
European Film
`The Invisible Wells' in European Cinema and Television	302	(19)
Nicoletta Vallorani
European Unification
H. G. Wells and the International Pan-European Union	321	(18)
John S. Partington
Bibliography	339	(66)
Index	405